[Surgical field. Polyvalent or specialized nursing: job satisfaction and quality of care]

This article focuses on study about nursing staff working satisfaction in a Surgical Ward as well as determining the difference, if this difference exists, in the degree of staff satisfaction among those whose work is performed as a specialist or a polyvalent nurse. A specialist is defined as a person who carries out his/her professional duties in the same surgical ward over two years or more; a polyvalent nurse is defined as one who changes their specialty according to the period established by their hospital or according to the needs at any given moment.